A major feature of living in a country where young men shoot their classmates about every 60 hours or so, and where a powerful political lobby invests heavily in keeping guns in constituents’ hands, is that there is always ample opportunity to consider what should have been done in the hours after a tragedy. We knew…

On Tuesday, Facebook, a company that has recently pivoted from pandering to conservative propagandists to ham-fisted displays of civic engagement, announced it would be working with the New Mexico Attorney General to do.... something about the state’s devastating opioid problem.

On Sunday night, the attorney general of New York filed a 38-page suit against the Weinstein Company and its founders, describing “vicious and exploitative mistreatment of company employees.” Also, Nancy Ashbrooke, a New York-based human resources professional who was vice president of Miramax’s ineffectual HR…

Last week I published a long story about my near-fatal bacterial infection six months ago, and the material benefits that kept me alive. Since the piece ran I have been completely overwhelmed by reader responses.

On the second Tuesday in June, I start to feel fluish. If this is 2016 and I’m still a freelance writer, I’m losing money immediately on the assignments I can’t complete because my vision is blurry and my thoughts are erratic. If this is 2013, I am soon taken off the roster at the cafe where I work.

Happy 370th day of the Trump presidency, which is also yet another day when The New York Times has decided to spam its subscribers with stories from Trump’s Real America, where people hold some obscure and nonsensical and—just maybe!—racist positions.

Last week, when Kentucky announced it would become the first state to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, state lawmakers endorsed the idea that people who utilize health services do so because they lack a moral compass. But the state’s new rules also include a bizarre set of educational mandates for…

This morning, the Florida House Health and Human Services committee overwhelmingly approved a resolution that would declare pornography a public health crisis in the state, a move that would bring Florida in line with similar decrees in Utah, South Dakota, and Virginia.

Today Kentucky became the first state to require Medicaid recipients to prove they’re working or getting job training in order to retain their insurance, part of a waiver concocted by Governor Matthew Bevin in 2016 and just now approved by the Trump administration.

On Sunday, Pastor Andy Savage received a standing ovation at the Memphis megachurch Highpoint as he confessed from the pulpit to the “sin” of a “sexual incident” with a 17-year-old girl 20 years ago. Last night, he gave an hour-long interview in which he spun the assault as the result of a “flirtatious environment” at…

Today, the Library of Congress announced it will no longer collect all public tweets, beginning on January 1—a project it began seven years ago and has continued since, perhaps out of some sweet, misguided sense that future historians will have time to ponder the thousands of missives posted to the site every second…

After days of deliberation, a jury has acquitted all six of the people charged with felony property destruction, misdemeanor conspiracy to riot, and misdemeanor rioting for taking part in anti-Trump protests in D.C. during last year’s inauguration.

This holiday season, like many American families, the Ruibals peppered their home in Greely, Colorado, with whimsical and seasonally appropriate decorations: string lights, a glowing reindeer, a wreath. Oh, and a large cardboard sign reading FUCK NAZIS.

Five years after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the residents of Newtown, CT, have yet to hear back from the Trump administration. In February, the town asked the president to publicly confirm that the shooting, which claimed 26 lives, was not in fact a government conspiracy played out by hired actors.

Lyft, a ride-sharing company that was recently valued at $11.5 billion and has positioned itself as the “woke” alternative to Uber, has done some nice things to distinguish itself from its much larger, international competitor. It was the first to allow riders to tip drivers, it once encouraged users to sit in the…

Last week, Bennet Omalu, a deeply religious, Nigerian-born doctor once portrayed by Will Smith, took on the second major institution of his decades-long career: the San Joaquin County sheriff’s office.

In the weeks since eightwomen have come forward with stories of Roy Moore’s habitual predation involving very young girls, the prospective senator has been creeping back into favor with all sorts of equivocating groups: the RNC, conservative evangelical pastors, presidents who have bragged about assaulting women on…